SAP PP / Manufacturing Functional Consultant

Sopra Steria • Kinston, NC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Sopra Steria is seeking a highly experienced SAP PP / Manufacturing Functional Consultant with 10+ years of SAP and manufacturing experience to work onsite with a client in Kinston, USA. The consultant will serve as a key interface between manufacturing business teams and SAP/IT delivery teams, working with production, planning, shop-floor, quality, logistics, and IT stakeholders to understand operational challenges and translate them into effective SAP solutions.

This is a strongly client-facing role. The consultant is expected to independently lead business discussions, facilitate workshops, challenge requirements when appropriate, recommend practical solutions, and drive work through design, testing, deployment, and stabilization. The role covers SAP Production Planning (PP) and manufacturing processes, including planning, production execution, material consumption, confirmations, and finished goods receipt, along with integration across related SAP modules and manufacturing systems.

The consultant will support SAP implementation, transformation, rollout, enhancement, and stabilization activities. The position requires hands-on SAP PP functional and configuration expertise, discrete manufacturing and production execution knowledge, and the ability to work independently onsite and own functional topics from requirements through deployment. SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing experience is preferred.

Requirements

• 10+ years of overall SAP functional experience, with strong specialization in SAP PP / Production Planning and Manufacturing.
• Strong hands-on functional and configuration experience in SAP PP.
• Strong understanding of discrete manufacturing and production execution processes.
• Proven experience with MRP, production orders, BOMs, routings, work centers, capacity planning, shop-floor control, and manufacturing master data.
• Experience participating in multiple end-to-end SAP implementation, rollout, transformation, or enhancement programs.
• Strong understanding of integration between PP and MM, QM, EWM/WM, PM, and FI/CO.
• Strong experience leading requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, process-design workshops, and functional solution discussions.
• Excellent client-facing, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with manufacturing business teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently onsite and take ownership of functional topics from requirement through deployment.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

Nice To Haves

• SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing experience.
• SAP S/4HANA implementation or migration experience.
• Experience in aerospace, aviation, automotive, or complex industrial manufacturing.
• Experience working directly with production and shop-floor organizations.
• Knowledge of MES integration with SAP PP, particularly production order and manufacturing execution flows.
• Exposure to SAP QM and manufacturing quality processes.
• Experience with SAP Fiori applications for manufacturing.
• SAP PP / S/4HANA certification.
• Experience working in large, global manufacturing organizations and distributed delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional activities related to SAP Production Planning (PP) and manufacturing processes.
• Analyze current manufacturing processes and define SAP solutions aligned with operational requirements.
• Configure and support SAP PP capabilities, including MRP, MPS, production orders, planned orders, BOMs, routings and work centers, capacity planning, shop-floor control, production execution, and manufacturing master data.
• Support end-to-end manufacturing scenarios across planning, production execution, material consumption, confirmations, and finished goods receipt.
• Ensure effective integration between SAP PP and MM, QM, EWM/WM, PM, FI/CO, and other manufacturing systems.
• Act as a trusted functional advisor to manufacturing and business stakeholders onsite and build working relationships with production managers, planners, shop-floor users, process owners, IT teams, and project leadership.
• Lead business workshops, process walkthroughs, requirements-gathering sessions, fit-gap assessments, and solution-design discussions.
• Translate business pain points and operational requirements into practical SAP solutions; communicate SAP capabilities, constraints, alternatives, and business impacts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Constructively challenge requirements, recommend solutions based on SAP standard capabilities and manufacturing best practices, and drive alignment and decisions across business, functional, technical, and integration teams.
• Conduct AS-IS / TO-BE process analysis and identify functional gaps.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, process designs, configuration requirements, and user stories.
• Work with SAP technical and development teams on enhancements, interfaces, reports, forms, and workflows; review proposed solutions with business stakeholders and obtain functional alignment.
• Support SAP implementation, transformation, rollout, enhancement, and stabilization activities; identify dependencies, risks, and integration impacts and drive resolution.
• Define functional test scenarios for end-to-end manufacturing processes and lead or support unit testing, SIT, regression testing, and UAT.
• Coordinate with business users during UAT and support defect analysis and resolution.
• Support cutover preparation, data validation, deployment, go-live, and hypercare activities.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis across SAP and integrated manufacturing processes.
• Provide knowledge transfer, user guidance, and functional documentation.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive, fully covered benefits package, including life insurance, long-term disability, health, dental, and vision coverage, and a health spending account; the company covers 100% of premiums.
• Paid sick leave, personal days, and three weeks of vacation.
• Monthly transportation allowance.
• Learning, development, and career advancement opportunities.
• Hybrid work environment.
• Equipment needed to stay productive.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior